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« She said that update was intended to do two things: enable a new set of features around business messaging, and “make clarifications and provide greater transparency” around the company’s pre-existing policies. “There are no changes to our data sharing with Facebook anywhere in the world,” Sweeney said.»

This is worrying - does she say that the policy was updated to reflect what they already was doing?
> In the HN bubble lots of people have migrated to Signal with all of their contacts but outside of that bubble nothing much seems to be happening.

I live in Mexico, most things happen through WhatsApp.

I was surprised by how many of my non-technical friends migrated to Signal and Telegram. Non-techies were sharing fake information about the new policy. The word around was that the new policy would allow facebook to spy on all your messages and photos. This scared off a lot of people and many of my friends at least download Signal or Telegram.
A big part of it is that simply connecting your own network to these exchanges is a lot more expensive in the US due to increased land size and corrupt legislation.

Due to the intense regulations (which are bought and paid for at the legislative level, and mostly exist to protect the large incumbents like Verizon, AT&T, Comcast, CenturyLink, et al from any new competitors) you end up having to buy your "last mile" loop (which, due to the US's size and general car-centric design, is much more than just a mile in most cases) that connects your network (in your office, or data center, or whatever, over to the exchange point) from a small number of monopolists.

They're thousands, or tens of thousands of dollars per month.

"We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company."
You’re both right. In philosophy, you call this an “ultimate” cause, vs. a “proximate” cause.

You push a marble with your finger, and it moves. Why? Because the momentum from your finger was transferred into the marble when you touched it (proximate cause); equally correctly, it moved because you pushed it (ultimate cause).

People are complex. Maybe you post for more than one reason.
I mean a car is the best way to get around in a pandemic? You're in a sealed cube.
65+ is 90% deaths. But only 65% of hospitalizations. And, counter-intuitively, only 40% of ICU admissions.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Er2kghUXcAAWyzx?format=jpg&name=...
I am not an expert at all, but I guess it really depends on the effect that "precautions" have on transmissibility, and therefore... probably in at least a few months, not before - assuming the vaccines protect from the new variants.
This looks super helpful, thanks.
An apple is a single unit though.

An apple is made up of constituent parts, but it is a singular thing.

If you argue against an Apple being singular then you are essentially professing that nothing is singular.

When you take a bite out of an apple you now have a subset of an apple “an apple with a bite out of it”.

To me saying God made the integers is more akin to saying, there is and there isn’t, and all else is built upon the difference.
The concern is that we might end up in the same awkward spot we hit in the summer, where non-conscientious people decide everything's okay and nobody wants to relax the official restrictions for fear of emboldening them. (If you were strictly following California's published rules, for example, you wouldn't have had any private gathering for any reason between March and October.)
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Tesla put a bunch of their charging stations onto solar panels with battery backup and they have large batteries on trailers with chargers they deploy to meet demand during peak travel periods. In a world where everyone or a lot people have a home battery system with solar neither gas stations nor the electric grid will matter as much possibly not at all. Think about it this way. Is there a way for you to buy equipment to make your own gas from resources on your property? Is there equipment you can buy to generate your own electricity?
Where would it be illegal to store petrol? It might be unwise if you live in an apartment, but illegal?
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Perhaps he's not even authorized to share such information.
"It decides to go in the opposite lane. That is not ideal."

Twice in a row. At two different left turns. Yeah, not ideal.
Call the Council Bluffs police in Iowa where they have a major data center. Report you suspect an unauthorized employee may have locked you out of your accounts in violation of Iowa's computer trespass law.
It seems to me that you (and the article) are re-defining terms willy-nilly for reasons I can't quite discern. Why not just use terms as they're generally understood, instead of encoding your ideas?
Yea of course but that's a tangent. The point is if these crimes were handled lightly, they would occur more often.

We can go all the way down to the animal kingdom. Lions don't usually attack hippos because they know there can be harsh punishment in failure. Otherwise said attacks would be frequent. Just as I don't drink and drive recklessly because I know there can be severe consequences.

Frankly I believe the only way to reduce prison population is through education and opportunity BEFORE crimes happen but keep current punitive laws because they serve to protect the law abiding hard working citizen and to disincentivize crimes.
Some light research shows that it would cost closer to 3-4 billion dollars to build a fab from 2014[1] This makes a good bit of sense since the clean rooms required are massive and require a good bit of work to get right. Also from my experience with auditing PCB manufacturing in the united states. 100M might be able to get you a old TI Fab to make some TTL Parts at.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiconductor_fabrication_plan...
FWIW, HE has also been pushing for IPv6 to be awesome waaaaay longer than IPv6 has been very popular.

I don't know them, but I am supremely glad for their 15+ year efforts along these lines.
"just old" applies to the battery technology used when they were built. Not to "a car" in general. It is totally uneconomic to scrap a car only because one part broke. I own a car from 1978 that is in very good shape (for some minimal maintenance cost, you should not just let it rot).
Then he probably shouldn't be posting a plea for help either.
Autocracies are only short-term efficient. Once their initial aims are met, they become terribly inefficient, then corruption sets in, and then they must be forcibly removed.

It's good for other nations who can benefit from their trailblazing, but bad for the nation itself because they're basically fucked in the future when the bill comes due.

Centralization is long-term the worst kind of governance, inevitably becoming as self-serving as kingdoms and monopolies. The bigger it is, the worse it gets and the sooner it gets there.
IIRC so far China doesn't seem to be doing anything like Tesla, most things I've seen were testing in a closed zone with an engineer, Waymo-style.

They also don't have any self-driving deaths for now, unless I missed something.

I thus don't think they will have this advantage. They might have the advantage of more chaotic traffic?
Depends on the type of 4x4 you want.

If you're looking for the "I can go EVERYWHERE" type, then your options are a bit limited at the moment (Rivian, Cybertruck, Bollinger).

For regular "I want better traction and pull a trailer" 4x4 you've got a bunch of options, mostly PHEV though.
You could say its financed by Apple, or your could say its financed by every user of a smartphone or GPU.

TSMC will manufacture relative low volumes of chips (at presumably high prices) chips for industries which require domestic sourcing like the military so its not going into an iPhone.
Look closer. The oncoming traffic is detected, just the visualization on the dashboard screen in a bright yellow is difficult to mark out in the video.
You shouldn't really worry about object storage security, and your approach to using it should be as if everything you store in/on it will be published in the newspaper tomorrow.
Can confirm. Deleted WhatsApp the day the TOS-changes-dialog popped up. Got a number of "So-and-so is now new in so-and-so" messages from telegram and signal. This is not just a HN bubble. Many people in my network just dumped WhatsApp and moved on. Good. Downgraded my mother from WhatsApp to SMS regarding contacting me, which is actually an advantage since now she can't share stupid videos with me anymore. All in all, win-win for everyone.
ha, not really.

The main problem(s) with the leaf are

- it charges to 100% every time (unless you dig into a menu, turn on analytics and switch to 80%) I never knew a leaf driver that figured this out.

- the battery size is very small, so you need a full charge to get anywhere reliably and/or drain it very low.

- to put any kind of mileage on the car, you need to cycle the battery MANY times. (one cycle might be a day's driving on the leaf, but one cycle on a tesla is a week's driving or more)

I think the leaf would be a perfect car with up to 20 miles of daily driving.

(I owned the same car as OP)
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This is correct. Without defining it, we're just arguing about words.
Any Postgres implementation of this yet?
A lot of this also stems from a culture of quarterly earnings reports and idiotic "fiduciary" duty to some shareholders instead of the primary duty being to customers and humanity.

The incentives are fundamentally defined in the wrong way, and the system has just optimized itself for the those incentives.
Google is just as hard to get in. Transferring from Gmail into gsuite took over 3 weeks for a single account
>You're also entrusting my life, and those of my family, to them. But we'll gloss over that, because it's expensive not to.

This is my biggest concern. I'm going to get killed by some jackass' tesla while he's texting, because Elon Musk is a megalomaniac.
the vaccine stops bad outcomes but doesn’t neccersarilly stop spread or cases. The metrics to follow are hospitilastions and deaths
Odd..I live in AZ and local news is reporting the Fab at $12B, and the total project at $38B over 20 years (including 2K new jobs(1)(2)

also, they want to have it production ready by 2024, which seems incredibly tight timeline. My understanding is even the air handlers have to run for like 6 months before production can start.

Anyway, I'm hoping this will give the local economy a nice post-covid boost.

1: https://azbigmedia.com/real-estate/taiwan-semiconductor-laun...

2: https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/4089176

edit: formating
I never said you cannot do stuff using VB.NET. Why is this so hard to understand? My point is was VB.NET the best way to do it? Should we praise the tool as good? How do you know that this excel thing, which does not support testing, does not provide feedback when stuff goes wrong will not blow up in your face like that COVID excel[1] from UK did? Please go back and re read my example about the spoon.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54423988
Also I think it was just to cover the backs of FB engineers. Like you implement a new feature and you are afraid you get scolded because it broke something. You know you are covered. So you dare to change things. Actually was there even a handful of cases where things broke? (And I am sure FB will get rid of the engineer who breaks too many things)
> You wouldn't be actually able to define yourself as Afro-American in the US

Please see https://www.census.gov/topics/population/race/about.html, and especially "An individual’s response to the race question is based upon self-identification. The Census Bureau does not tell individuals which boxes to mark or what heritage to write in."

The "annoying BS" you mention is people's response to that self-identification, not a legal one.
Either you had the Advanced Protection enabled, or your G Suite admin must have turned on the link munging:

https://hackaday.com/2020/10/21/google-meddling-with-urls-in...

FWIW, Microsoft have had a similar feature long before Google:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/offi...
To be apples-to-apples, you (2-2.5c/GB) do charge 5x what B2 charges (0.5c/GB) (for just the storage part) for small customers.

For a lot of people, a 5x price difference disqualifies the term "alternative", although you are in line with industry/S3 pricing. It's just that Backblaze has specifically differentiated by being super duper cheap.

It's why I use them for my personal projects.
There was the Foxconn Wisconsin thing which seems to not really turned to much as of yet.
I was going through some stress and while dreaming I was able to hear and remember high fidelity symphonic music in way that felt like I was listening to live music.

Normally my thoughts around sound were more symbolic or descriptive but not the actual vibrations of the bow against a string.

This carried over into waking life and I was able to conjure all sorts of instruments in symphonies. I am a fairly lousy composer. Reader's Digest Condensed Time Life Symphonies kinda quality. The effect has faded, but it made me realize the depths of which our perceptions of the world can differ. It has made me more curious about how people think and perceive the world.
The people calling ‘USDT’ a scam probably haven’t used it. For the past 5 years, Tether has been the most amazing way for me to transfer dollars across exchanges, or just to hold during market drawdowns.

The fact that it is unregulated, and weakly subject to AML/KYC is a feature for me, not a problem. My money, my business, not the governments.
On the other hand, there's a bit of an obsession to equate the success of a company with the respect the founder is supposed to receive. There's plenty of examples of people who became 'successful' and were still not great humans. Larry Ellison and the last president come to mind. Steve Jobs comes to mind.

People need to stop fantasizing about 'Elon' being some great guy because they like what he achieved. It's almost like the technorati need their own version of celebrities to fawn over.
My two person household uses maybe two kWh per day.
No evidence that it doesn't, either. It's simply hard to get this evidence and irrelevant for getting vaccines approved, so nobody has bothered. And it'd be really odd if it didn't help wrt infection rate.
This reminds me of what’s currently happening with Netflix, Hulu, Apple TV, HBO Max etc.

We’ve also come full circle with cable.
No, the people calling USDT a scam know that it's backed by nothing, and Tether has no obligation whatsoever to redeem them, ever (it's in their T&Cs).

Their banking partner, Deltec, in the Bahamas is chaired by the man who created the Inspector Gadget TV series.

[edit] Tethers are chuck-e-cheese tokens that became so integral to the entire cryptocurrency market (90% of ETH inflow and 80% of BTC inflow are Tether, not dollars) that nobody can do anything other than pretend they're legitimate. Because if they're not - and they're not - then the whole thing falls down.
Quite a few stars and usable solar systems started out 1 billion years ahead of ours. The sun is relatively late to the game. If a race was curious it could well seed the galaxy with small, smart probes, that could watch for certain signs life, record, and report back to the galaxy wide cloud, sure speed of light means that takes a long time. Sure that may take 50k years for light speed communications to reach a central location, but it would collect whatever was of interest.

Might even just be a few 100 bytes of info along the lines of somewhat evolved bipedal warm blooded beings with a basic grasp of electronics, quantum, chemistry, and atomic sciences. Haven't transitions to artificial life forms, and unlikely to succeed because of short sighted environmental policies that are systemically causing a extinction event by destroying the food chain and decreasing fertility world wide. Check back in 10,000 years and see if they surprise us.
I don't infect and kill anything. I'm not a virus. What kind of demented logic is that?

My uncle got the vaccine, and then a week later his family comes down with Covid, including him. They did fine, but it's not a guaranteed thing.

This particular vaccine isn't even a vaccine in the traditional sense, where they give you an inhibited version of the virus and let your immune system work on it. It's an mRNA cellular protein booster that is supposed to help fight it. It's all pretty new.
I don’t think those miles are directly comparable because most of Waymo’s miles are with trained test drivers, I think?
I have been entertaining this idea for years. First time I hear someone else voice it.

Do you have an idea what the philosophical term for this idea is? It seems related to connectionism.

One might assume that abstraction and pattern matching in the brain are required to determine that two "things" are the same. It is perhaps a small step to go from comparing things to comparing integers.

Unfortunately, this line of reasoning quickly goes awry, because one cannot assume even the existence of things to describe brains or pattern matching.
Kinda hard to square that with a product called "Full Self Driving". Terms of service are generally worthless as a legal shield against catastrophic harm to customers.
Only to the extent “real” is defined by something being embodied by entities of physics.
Though now we are simply describing a characteristic of what something is not.
But the fact that we are describing what some thing is not, assumes then we are describing something that is, and therefore math is real.
Though like many real things it’s embodiment varies.

By the platonic idea maybe: The shadow from the flower on the cave wall, does not smell like a flower, but the flower’s smell is a real thing.
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> Fauci was never dishonest

TheStreet asked him "why weren't we told to wear masks in the beginning?"

> Well, the reason for that is that we were concerned the public health community, and many people were saying this, were concerned that it was at a time when personal protective equipment, including the N95 masks and the surgical masks, were in very short supply. And we wanted to make sure that the people namely, the health care workers, who were brave enough to put themselves in a harm way, to take care of people who you know were infected with the coronavirus and the danger of them getting infected.

https://www.thestreet.com/video/dr-fauci-masks-changing-dire...

He didn't say "because we didn't know any better," he said (paraphrased) so the general public doesn't go out and buy them, causing a shortage. I find that dishonest.
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Really. Waymo has this in 2012? https://youtu.be/YJxnVRAX2UA?t=4

Do you have an article/video you can share by any chance?

I've been following Google's self driving efforts for years and must've missed that.
In general, what you’re saying about growth rates is true. However, there’s reason to believe that electric cars could grow at that pace

1. Regulation by governments. A few states and countries are mandating zero emissions (ie electric) vehicles by 2035.

2. Car manufacturer strategy. Since they know they can’t sell ICE vehicles past 2035 in some jurisdictions, it’s better to make the transition to electric quicker. Audi, for example, doesn’t plan to refresh its ICE vehicles past 2023. Even if you wanted to buy a new ICE Audi in 2025, you couldn’t.

3. Prices for consumers. The increase in manufacturing volumes of batteries will make them cheaper. They’ve dropped 20% per year over the last decade thanks to increased volumes. In a few years, the sticker price on electric vehicles will become lower without any subsidies. Their total cost of ownership is already lower. This will further increase growth.

4. Charging infrastructure. Currently the second biggest stumbling block (after sticker price). It’s not economically feasible to build charging networks or infra in apartment complexes when electric vehicles are niche. But as they grow in popularity, it becomes more viable, further increasing their popularity.

So yes, normally you can’t expect growth like this to last. But it possibly will because the attractiveness of electric cars increases in proportion to their popularity.
Well, you don't have to have a standalone coin to get the features you desire. For example the AZTEC Network, which is a privacy protocol, can be used with any Ethereum-based ERC20 token, including algorithmic stablecoins like DAI, and soon Reserve.

A demo a couple years ago showed AZTEC being used to conduct privacy-protected DAI transactions for the first time:

https://twitter.com/avsa/status/1068536063470125056

Since then, AZTEC's privacy technology has become more efficient in terms of gas, and more effective at protecting privacy, going from protecting merely the privacy of amounts, to protecting the privacy of amounts transferred and sending/receiving addresses.

AZTEC is also developing a zk-Rollup, which increases Ethereum's maximum throughput from 15 tps to 3,000 tps, so that these private stablecoin transactions can be done at scale (though not 3,000 tps, since privacy comes with a computational and state storage overhead, but still much greater than 15 tps).
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B-trees need sortable data; GP is not saying that the data has to be pre-sorted, but that it can't be unorderable or otherwise uncomparable.
AWS has their own command line application that you can use to deploy to their services. I haven’t used that directly as we use kubernetes so our deploy is a bit more complex
> As far as I'm aware we are not currently sealing dry casks in concrete and forgetting about them.

Then the facilities are probably still in use.

If the waste were sealed underground by a 100m long concrete plug in any access tunnel there isn't going to be a lot of call for guards.
I think the best evidence for Tesla doing poorly here (or maybe that LIDAR really is necessary) is precisely that they have all this data and still aren't doing as well as others. Tesla has a seriously absurd advantage here: they can observe millions of drivers and see when the human drivers do things differently than their self driving software would have, and capture the data from those events. They've had this advantage for many years, and yet, they still don't seem to be performing that much better (if at all) than competitors.
Don't forget insurance/liability, gas, security, and cleaning up after passengers, too!
This is so funny. That is what happened to me. I’ve been on Signal for a while and suddenly the whole extended family switched over. The switch to signal is real.
Monero exists in a global market. There are many many exchanges all over the world. On top of that, Monero can be trivially exchanged for other cryptocurrencies without the use of custodial/permissioned exchanges. The cryptocurrency genie is out of its bottle.
Disappearing messages can always be snapshotted arent they? I fail to see their point ?(earnest question) by snapshotted, either with system snapshot or another phone?
It’s because their electric grid equipment has been the source of ignition for wild fires in the past and the state fined them for causing fires which in part drove them into bankruptcy last year. So to avoid fines they cut off power whenever conditions make fires likely. Their poor financial management over decades is also likely responsible for poor equipment maintenance which increases likelihood of equipment causing fires.
You probably have a roof that doesn't have solar panels yet.
I run my personal email on Fastmail, but I don't like the idea of them being compelled to turn over my entire mailspool on demand to intelligence agencies without a warrant, so I'll go back to hosting my own, as I did for 20 years before Fastmail. :/